GoDaddy Has Glitches, Anonymous Claims Responsibility

The closely held firm, which registers and provides servers for numerous websites, at about 1:35 p.m. Eastern Time sent out a tweet acknowledging that it has been having trouble with its site. Two hours later, it said it had received “so many messages” that it was overwhelmed, and that it was working “feverishly” to resolve its issues as soon as possible.

Around that time, a Twitter account called @AnonymousOwn3r claimed responsibility, tweeting “#tangodown godaddy.com.”

GoDaddy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In any case, the incident carried signatures of a string of cyber attacks that took place last year.

Hacking targets that summer, which seemed to have kicked off with a breach of Sony’s Internet-based videogame service known as the PlayStation Network, included Nintendo, the U.S. Senate and the Arizona Department of Public Safety.

The group behind the attacks, which called itself Lulz Security, used sailing and military themes while it publicized and joked about its exploits. The group’s website even played the theme from the hit 1970s television show, “The Love Boat.”

Lulz Security also went by the handle “LulzSec.” Lulz is Internet slang for laughs.

The group disbanded in June of last year, only to join a larger group within the loosely organized Internet political protest group, Anonymous, known as “AntiSec,” or anti-security. It has since carried out various attacks with similar flair as its predecessor.

One of the most recent attacks was an alleged break-in at the FBI, from which the group said it plundered millions of unique identification codes for Apple iPhones. The FBI denied the attack took place and said the data didn’t come from its computers either.